Oro- and nasogastric tube passage in intubated patients: Fiberoptic description of where they go at the laryngeal level and how to make them enter the esophagus

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 137-143

  Ozer, Steven ^b   Benumof, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arytenoid cartilage; Gastric decompression; Hypopharynx; Piriform sinus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033047944     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199907000-00022     Document Type: Article

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